“Los Angeles doesn’t take architecture seriously,” he says, “though I guess you could say that about most cities.”

“What about Disney Hall?” I ask.

"That’s just one building,” he says with amusement.

There is nothing peevish in his attitude toward this place. He is a fan, waxing a bit protective of our image: “It’s easy from outside to portray us as La-La Land, still easy for Europeans to come here and make jokes about us.”
— Los Angeles magazine